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Auction: 19010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2380

(x) Virgin Islands
1886 (9 June) long envelope registered to New York bearing 1867 crimson frames superimposed extending into margins 1/-, 1883-84 1d. (2) paying the triple U.P.U. rate, "A91" barred oval cancellations with Tortola straight line c.d.s. and "R" in oval between, very fine red boxed "Dansk/Vestindien" registration mark at lower left, St. Thomas and New York backstamps; slight faults but a magnificent exhibition item. Believed to be a unique franking. S.G. 18, 29. Photo

provenance:
R.H. Urwick, October 1964

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Sold for
£1,800